On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:34:30AM +0000, sol11x86 at comcast.net wrote: > > Bloat is probably unavoidable here. /usr or /opt makes little > > difference -- bloat is bloat and there it is. And /usr is friendlier: > > you'll find default versions of tthe bloat that you want in /usr/bin/. > > I think it makes a lot of difference. If it wasn't such an issue, wouldn't > have /usr/ucb and /usr/xpg5 been collasped into /usr/bin by now????
No. Those exist not for their bloat value but because they conflict with what is in /usr/bin. Your example is as oranges to the apples that is /usr vs. /opt. Nico --
